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...Power!, Korda (4) 3-Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer (2) 4-Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (7) 5-TM: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress, Bloomfield, Cain & Jaffe (3) 6-Money, Galbraith (5) 7-Total Fitness, Morehouse & Gross (6) 8-The Save-Your-Life Diet, Reuben 9-The Relaxation Response, Benson 10-The Great Railway Bazaar, Theroux...
...Power!, Korda...
Party Power. Korda describes office behavior like a pop anthropologist. In the first phase of business parties, he says, the most powerful people will station themselves in the corners of the room, attracting a circle of nonpowerful listeners. "Once this has been accomplished, they move naturally toward each other and close ranks, the powerful separating themselves instinctively from the non-powerful" (see bottom diagram). Advises Korda: this is the moment for the underlings to break away. "It is a sign that the period of familiarity is over...
...Korda is so obsessed by style as the key to power that his book reads like The Prince by Matchabelli. He believes that shoes should be the five-eyelet type from Peal & Co., Ltd. and must always be highly shined. Expensive, thin briefcases are out. A man making less than $50,000 should carry only an old, battered two-handle briefcase. A thin leather portfolio is proper between $50,000 and $100,000. A man who makes more than that should not carry a briefcase...
...Korda's only previous book, published in 1973, was called Male Chauvinism! How It Works. He dreads being thought a sexist, but occasionally has difficulty with the notion that women might become powerful. "Any job a woman does is downgraded the moment she has proved she can do it," he remarks airily. He adds that "if a woman were elected President and chose a male Vice President, we would doubtless see the Vice Presidency transformed into a position of serious responsibility and power, while the Presidency was downgraded until the President and Vice President could be treated...